Improvement in infants  parlor-wagons



B. JQHARRISON.

Infants Parlor Wagons.

$10,169,168, PatentedOct .26,1875.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN J. HARRISON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y

IMPROVEMENT IN INFANTS PARLOR-WAGONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 169,168, dated October 26, 1875; application filed March 23, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that: I, BENJAMIN J. HARRI- soN, of the city and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Infants Parlor- Wagon, of which the followingis a specification:

Wagons for childrens usein dwellings have not heretofore been adapted to the circumstances under which they are used. They are liable to injure the furniture. A child, by leaning in one direction or the other, or by seizing an adjacent article, may upset the wagon, and the childs' hands and limbs are liable to injury from contact with adjacent objects when the wagon is being drawn around the room.

My invention is made to relieve all these difficulties, and consists in a childs wagon made with a projecting bottom board, forming a fender all around such wagon that is sufficiently near the door to rest upon the floor if the wagon is tipped sidewise or toward the sides a, back b, and foot-rest c, and'the bottom d is attached to such body, and projects at the sides and back to form the fenders 6 cf, and the hind Wheels 9 are inserted into mortises in the fenders e e, and, by preference, are covered, and the frontwheel h is made as a caster-that is, by preference, recessed sufficiently to allow the bottom of the wagon to be but a short distance from the floor. A cord, Z,-attached at the front end of the wagon allows it to be drawn from place to place.

If the weight of the child in this wagon tends to tip the same to the back, or to either side, the fender resting upon the floor prevents further movement, and the inclination is not enough to allow the child to fallout, and the projecting fenders guard the hands and limbs of the child from injury by projecting so farfrom the body of the wagon that room is left for such hands and limbs should they be outside the body, and the fenders strike any article of furniture. 1

The edges of the fenders may be covered with india rubber or other yielding material.

I claim as my invention The infants wagon made with the fenders e e and f, at the bottom of the body, projecting beyond the wheels, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

Signed by me this 18th day of March, 1875.

- B. J. HARRISON.

Witnesses:

GEO. P. PINOKNEY, GHAs. H. SMITH. 

